OpenOffice.org: Multiple vulnerabilities

OpenOffice.org: Multiple vulnerabilities OpenOffice.org is affected by three security vulnerabilities which can be exploited to allow the execution of arbitrary code by a remote attacker. OpenOffice.org July 28, 2006 July 28, 2006: 01 138545 remote 2.0.3 2.0.3 2.0.3 2.0.3

OpenOffice.org is an open source office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, data charting, formula editing, and file conversion facilities.

Internal security audits by OpenOffice.org have discovered three security vulnerabilities related to Java applets, macros and the XML file format parser.

Specially crafted Java applets can break through the "sandbox".
Specially crafted macros make it possible to inject BASIC code into documents which is executed when the document is loaded.
Loading a malformed XML file can cause a buffer overflow.

An attacker might exploit these vulnerabilities to escape the Java sandbox, execute arbitrary code or BASIC code with the permissions of the user running OpenOffice.org.

Disabling Java applets will protect against the vulnerability in the handling of Java applets. There are no workarounds for the macro and file format vulnerabilities.

All OpenOffice.org users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/openoffice-2.0.3"

OpenOffice.org Security Bulletin 2006-06-29 CVE-2006-2199 CVE-2006-2198 CVE-2006-3117 dizzutch koon